We are in the midst of a heat wave. Temperatures over 100 degrees during the day, with night time lows of 83!!
I am wistfully casting my mind back to spring and the mild climates, so I am posting photos from a typical evening walk. Most pictures were taken the same evening, though a couple were snapped a few days later.
StingrayPoint
We try and take a walk most evenings to get rid of the cobwebs and have a change of view from the inside or outside of a boat. The red line (clicking on the picture above will enlarge it) shows where we generally go, starting at the white covered building on the left where our boat is kept, out of the boatyard and through Stingray Point Marina. Then we head north to the mouth of the Rappahannock, right towards the end of Stingray Point and Chesapeake Bay, circling around to rejoin our track and retrace our steps.
Stingray Point got it's name from Captain John Smith (the same John Smith reputedly "saved" from death by Pocahontas ). He was fishing here with his men when he was struck by the tail of a stingray and became gravely ill. In fact, he had already picked out the spot where his men were to bury him (many say it was Gwynns Island to the south), but he was helped by Indians who cured him with potions from a creek later to be known as Antipoison creek. Smith's recovery was so quick he was apparently able to eat the stingray for supper!
In those days Stingray Point extended much further into the Bay. Wind and waves take their toll - in the 1930s a hurricane removed almost half of it.
Past the workshop where the guys and gals relax after a long day
At the marina, there is an osprey on top of a mast....
.........and a green heron by the dock.
A cardinal (Virginia's State bird) and a bluebird stay still long enough for us to use the camera
Froths of azaleas...
...like ripe berries and cream
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